Monochrome Ibis

[Matt K.]

The color image shows the bird almost black, and there was no way I could get the colours of the Ibis back into the shot. So here it is in monochrome ...

[Mad Aussie]

Excellent silhouette!!

I'll move this to the B&W-Monochrome section.

[kat]

Have to agree fully!

[ericmark]

Very good Africa or Turkey? I have seen them in Turkey nesting and walking around the protected compound the local town is very proud of the birds but catching them in flight eluded me.
So well done getting any photo of such a rare bird.

[ericmark]

Just to let people see what the bird looks like. 400mm lens taken in Jpeg format at 1/250 sec camera set to 100ASA hand held and really asking a bit much to hand hold that lens looking at the colours I can see how Black and White may help and I may try it with pictures I have of the bird.

The Northern Bald Ibis used to nest here and winter in the deserts of Arabia, up to 1,000 pairs in the 1960s. Now a few dozen birds remain and these no longer migrate but remain protected year-round in Birecik.

[Mad Aussie]

Not sure about your part of the world there Eric ... but where I am the Ibis is certainly not rare at all. We see large flockes of them quite regularly around here.
I think the one Matt posted might look a bit more like the one in my thread http://www.photography.ca/Forums/f20...ibis-2997.html

[ericmark]

Maybe only bald ones are rare never seen any in UK.

[Matt K.]

Very good Africa or Turkey? I have seen them in Turkey nesting and walking around the protected compound the local town is very proud of the birds but catching them in flight eluded me.
So well done getting any photo of such a rare bird.

Neither Africa nor Turkey. This whitefaced Ibis is the same one that crapped on Greg at Frank Lake, Alberta, Canada. Apparently there are quite a number of them around on that lake. Check Greg's image out for the colours.